Dr. Julie Miyo Higashi MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
976 Lenzen Ave Suite 1700 San Jose CA, 95126About
Dr. Julie Higashi is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Jose, CA. Dr. Higashi specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1999
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Platelet-derived microparticles on synthetic surfaces observed by atomic force microscopy and fluorescence microscopy.
- Interferon-Gamma Release Assays and Pediatric Public Health Tuberculosis Screening: The San Francisco Program Experience 2005 to 2008.
- Adhesion of Staphylococcus epidermidis and transposon mutant strains to hydrophobic polyethylene.
- Bacterial surface properties of clinically isolated Staphylococcus epidermidis strains determine adhesion on polyethylene.
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REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER OF SAN JOSEl
225 N JACKSON AVENUE SAN JOSE CA 95116